Sweet Potato Oratti

 

I had some mashed sweet potatoes, was planning to make sweetpotato parathas when I saw the grated coconut. An idea clicked and decided to make oratti instead. It tasted awesome. My husband enjoyed it and said it was similar to puran poli, which is our favourite.

Ingredients

1 cup wheat flour ( for 3 orattis)

¾ cup boiled, skinned, mashed sweet potatoes

½ cup grated coconut

A pinch of salt

½ tsp cumin seeds

½ tsp white sesame seeds

2 tbsp ghee

Water to make the dough

Instruction

-          Take all the ingredients ( add only ½ tbsp ghee, remaining is for applying on the oratti) except water, mix well. Keep adding water slowly and knead into smooth dough

-          Heat a thava on medium heat, apply ghee. Remove the thava from the flame, take one third of the dough, spread lightly between the palms, put on thava and spread into a round with wet fingers. Put the thava back on the medium flame.

-          When the lower side is cooked, pour some ghee over the top surface, flip it upside down and let the other side also cook.

-          Remove and serve with butter or tomato sauce.

Sweet Potato Halwa

This is a very delicious sweet that is easy to prepare.

                                             Sweet potato halwa served with kala chana chat

Ingredients

1 ½ cups boiled, skinned and mashed sweet potato

½ cup jaggery

¾ cup water

2 tbsps ghee

1 tbsp raisins

¼ tsp cardamom powder

Instruction

-          Pour the ghee in a thick bottomed vessel, add the mashed sweet potato. Keep on low flame and keep stirring in between.

-          Meanwhile put the jaggery and water in a pan and keep on low fire. By the time this melts, the sweet potato will become light brown and give out nice aroma.

-          Pour the melted jaggery through a sieve into the roasted sweet potato and add raisins and cardamom powder.

-          Stir for two minutes and remove from fire. Serve hot or cold.